Dell Networking H-Series Director-Class Switches
Highly Integrated Director-Class Switches

Overview:

Dell H-Series Director-Class Switches offer a maximum of 768 ports, in 32-port increments, each providing 100Gbps performance and scales up to 19.2 terabytes per second (TB/s) of aggregate bandwidth. Intel OPA switches provide integrated support for high availability with advanced features such as power, fabric, and management module redundancy, component-level diagnostics and alarming, and out of band management.

Innovative features take fabric resilience and availability to new heights without sacrificing performance. Packet Integrity Protection (PIP), for example, provides high packet reliability with latency-free error checking and link-level recovery. Dynamic Lane Scaling (DLS) maintains 75 percent of link bandwidth if a physical lane fails, so HPC workloads can complete gracefully to keep deadlines on track.

Deterministic latency

H-Series switches help minimize negative performance impacts of large Maximum Transfer Units (MTUs) on small messages and help maintain consistent latency for interprocess communication (IPC), such as Message Passing Interface (MPI) messages, when large messages-typically storage are being simultaneously transmitted in the fabric. This will allow the switch to bypass lower priority large packets to allow higher priority small packets, creating a low and more predictable latency throughout the fabric.

Key benefits

• Provides improved fabric scalability, reduced latency, increased density, and reduced cost and power. These switches can dramatically lower fabric acquisition costs, while simultaneously reducing space and power requirements.
• Software management tools for ease of installation and managing small to very large complex fabrics

Specifications:

Legend: S — Standard, OA — Option Available, N — Not Available

Dell Networking H-Series Director-Class Switches Specifications

Availability Air-flow: Front-to-back H9106-OPF: Power Supply Redundancy: 3 (DC redundant) 4 (AC redundant) H9124-OPF: Power Supply Redundancy: 7 (DC redundant) 12 (AC redundant) Chassis H9124-OPF: Leaf Module Slots: 6 Spine Module Slots: 3 Management Module Slots (min / max): 1 / 2 Power Supplies (min / DC / AC Redundancy): 2 / 3 / 4 Fan Modules: 3 Max ports: 192 100Gb/s H9124-OPF: Leaf Module Slots: 24 Spine Module Slots: 12 Management Module Slots (min / max): 1 / 2 Power Supplies (min / DC / AC Redundancy): 6 / 7 / 12 Fan Modules: 9 Max ports: 768 100Gb/s Dimensions & Weight H9106-OPF: Size: 7 RU, 12.2 h x 17.6 w x 29.5” d (31 h x 44.7 w x 74.9 cm d) Weight (fully configured): 264.7 lb (120.1 kg) H9124-OPF: Size: 20 RU (+1 RU Support Tray), 35 h x 17.6 w x 29.5” d (88.9 h x 44.7 w x 74.9 cm d) Weight (fully configured): 624.3 lb (283.33 kg)

Environmental Operating Temperature: 0ºC to 40ºC (32ºF to 104ºF) Storage Temperature: -40ºC to 70ºC (-40ºF to 158ºF) Operating humidity:5% to 85% non-condensing Storage humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing Leaf Module(s): 32 x 100Gb/s QSFP28 ports Spine Module(s): 96 x internal mid-plane ports (3 x 32 port leaf modules) with 32 external ports Management Ports: 1 10/100/1000 BASE-T USB Ports: 1 Serial Type A Performance Multicast Table Size: 8192 Unicast Table Size: 49151 H9106-OPF: Switching Capacity: 4.8TBps H9124-OPF: Switching Capacity: 19.2TBps Power Power Supply: 180-240 VAC 50-60 Hz Hot Swappable: yes H9106-OPF: Typical Power Consumption: 1.8 KW (Copper) or 2.4 KW (All Optical - 3 Watt Max) Max. Power Consumption: 2.3 KW (Copper) or 3 KW (All Optical - 3 Watt Max) H9124-OPF: Typical Power Consumption: 6.8 KW (Copper) or 9.4 KW (All Optical - 3 Watt Max) Max. Power Consumption: 8.9 KW (Copper) or 11.6 KW (All Optical - 3 Watt Max)

Documentation:

Download the H-Series Director-Class Switches Spec Sheet (PDF).